Perfume Acacia Seeds

Perfume Acacia, also known as Sweet Acacia or Cassie, is one of the finest fragrant flowering plants for warm-climate gardens. Its golden yellow puffball blooms release a rich, sweet perfume with honeyed and violet-like notes, making it a prized ornamental for gardeners who love scented plants.

This attractive shrub or small tree features finely divided, feathery green foliage and a graceful branching habit. In bloom, the plant becomes a magnet for bees, butterflies, and other beneficial pollinators, while its dense branching can also provide cover for birds.

Perfume Acacia is especially valuable for hot, dry locations. Once established, it is drought tolerant, heat loving, and adaptable to poor, well-drained soils. It can be grown as a multi-stemmed shrub, trained as a small specimen tree, or kept in a large container in areas where winter protection is needed.

Acacia farnesiana is famous in perfumery as the source of Cassie fragrance, historically used in fine perfumes. For gardeners, it offers the rare combination of beauty, fragrance, resilience, and wildlife value.

Best suited for USDA Zones 8–11. Plants prefer full sun and well-drained soil. Light frost may be tolerated, but hard prolonged freezes can damage plants.

For more detailed growing information, visit our Perfume Acacia AI Fact Sheet.